Still, given that he’s the leader of the free world, many still take what he says seriously and literally, particularly when it might refer to military action. Which is why his comment during an impromptu photo-op with senior military leaders last night about how “maybe” this was “the calm before the storm” led to frantic follow-up questions. “What storm, Mr. President?“ a reporter asked. “ISIS? North Korea? Iran?” To which the ex-Miss Universe owner responded, “You’ll find out.”

As of Friday, however, even the president’s closest advisers remain in the dark. “No one I’ve spoken to in the White House is entirely clear what Trump meant,” Politico White House correspondent Josh Dawseytweeted. “I think there’s a high degree of probability that he’s trolling everyone,” said Axios’s Jonathan Swan. Apparently National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn doesn’t have a clue either, given his clumsy, digressive explanation Friday morning on Fox Business Network.

“I spend all my time on the economic side, but knowing the president, I think the president was reminding everyone how we continue to make large investments in our military. The budgets that are being passed right now, which are a pathway to getting tax reform done, will increase spending for our military. We continue to spend money for our military, we continue to invest in our military, we continue to modernize our military. And the president wants the world to understand that that’s important to him. He’s never going to telegraph what his next move is though.”

In other words, he doesn’t have the faintest idea. (And apparently White House press secretary Sarah Sandersdoesn’t either.)